Kidnapped, held for 55 days, then killed, Aldo Moro's gruesome fate at the hands of the Red Brigade marked an episode of Italian history that has never been forgotten. This collection of ten
essays offers a variety of viewpoints into the memory of this story, drawing on the events themselves, particularly Moro's own extensive letters and statements from captivity, and extending
into the present with movies and television dramas devoted to the Moro Affair. Theoretical discussion dominates the essays, including discussion of the effects of trauma on culture, the nature
of memory and memorials, and the writings about Moro's death by the thinkers Jean Baudrillard and Leonardo Sciascia. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2012
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